Purvis, Mississippi

Purvis population, 2020 to 2024

Purvis added 53 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

Purvis covers 4.19 square miles of land, for 467 people per square mile of land. The median Mississippi place of 5,000+ has 738, so Purvis is less dense than the typical town.

What county Purvis is in

All of Purvis's residents live in Lamar County, which had 66,734 residents in 2024. Purvis holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Purvis

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Purvis by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39475. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Purvis is

The Census internal point of Purvis is at 31.146400, -89.406300. Jackson, the capital, is 91.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hattiesburg, MS (48,522 people), 12.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is New Orleans, LA, 81.8 miles away.

Daylight in Purvis

At 31.15° N, Purvis gets about 14 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 03 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Purvis

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Mississippi, measured between internal points. The closest is Lumberton, 10.2 miles away, with 1,647 people.